From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Calling a function interactively with a universal argument Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:14:53 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1181736261.747222.187410@q19g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181874010 22691 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2007 02:20:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:20:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 15 04:20:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hz1Q1-0005cM-2S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:20:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz1Py-0004Dz-BK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz1Pj-0004Dq-7G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:19:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz1Ph-0004CF-K8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:19:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz1Ph-0004C9-He for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz1Ph-0005Nz-4y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz1Nd-0007yA-AI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:17:41 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:17:41 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:17:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) In-Reply-To: <1181736261.747222.187410@q19g2000prn.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45077 Archived-At: spamfilteraccount@gmail.com wrote: > Is it possible to call a function from a program with a certain > universal argument? > > I'd like to a redefine a standard command, but *without* bothering to > use its actual lisp interface, so I want to call the function from a > program as a user would, supplying only a universal argument or not. > > > I'd like to override find-tag behavior, so that it does something > after reading the interactive arguments, but before invoking the > original command: > > > (defun my-find-tag () > ; the result of (interactive-form 'find-tag) should be substituted > here somehow as an interactive specifier, because I want the same > interactive behavior (I can copy it of course manually, but it would > be nicer to copy here the interactive specification of find-tag > programatically) > > (if my-find-tags was called with C-u then do something > otherwise do something else) > > (call original find-tag with the interactive arugments received)) (defadvice find-tag (before universal-argument activate) "If called with \\[universal-argument], do SOMETHING, other do SOMETHING-ELSE." (if (consp current-prefix-arg) (something) (something-else))) > I've seen call-interactively, but it doesn't allow me to specify the > actual interactive arguments to call the command with. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA